What stands out about essentially liberal accounts from rationalist circles, is their love for exploring interesting, weird and controversial ideas. They follow and interact with accounts from across the political spectrum, including “literal fascists” and stereotypical SJWs.
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I’ve seen rationalist accounts crassly post about topics like zoophilia, not because they promote it, but because they’re genuinely curious about learning about the psychology behind paraphilia.
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I've seen them charitably weigh the perspective of groups like incels, who are seen as terrorists by mainstream media. This genuine and sometimes insufferable intellectual curiosity gets warped and misrepresented by the noise of the culture wars.
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Rationalists thought that engaging with ideas at a distance wouldn’t lead to cancellation, so some didn’t bother with anonymity, using pseudonyms derived from their real names, connecting their pseudonyms to their irl identities, and in many cases, forsaking anonymity.
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The ability to openly discuss ideas on the internet is a fundamental tenant in rationalist circles, so why bother with anonymity? Their mistake was in naively assuming that the internet is a safe-space for free-speech.
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Free-speech, taken to it’s extremes, is always transgressive and comes with risk, there has never been a time when this hasn't been the case. “Cancel culture” has always existed in some form.https://twitter.com/Digicultist/status/1198836571505676288?s=20 …
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People like Robin Hanson and Scott Alexander are very much liberals yet they’re getting canceled. I have seen big accounts defending Rabin Hanson for his Watermelon joke getting called fascists, and the label sticks, it’ll follow them around forever.
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Meanwhile, more controversial, yet anonymous accounts continue to ride the tiger, posting freely, unconcerned by the raging sea of liberals pounding on the gates.
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The shrewd autism of the chans, anime avatar users and frogs is more resilient, the internet was meant for anonymity. Free-speech becomes easy when you let go of having a fixed identity, no amount of censorship can stop an egregore.
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